Currently I watch programming which pertains more towards current events, law/politics, and basically programs that keep me informed as to what's going on in the world around me. ... Many individuals argue that today's generation is more desensitized towards violence than any generation in the past. ... His results are stated in the following quotes, "We found a significant and fairly dramatic increase in both physical and verbal aggression.". "Other people have sometimes reported our findings by saying that the level of verbal aggression and the level of physical aggression more tha...

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The preschoolers who watched Woody Woodpecker were more likely to be aggressive towards their classmates, both physically and verbally and were disruptive in the classroom (Cannon 424). ... Just as violence can teach children aggression, it can also bestow important lessons about the damage violence does to individuals, families and society. ...

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Zuckerman states that: children who watch more violence have more aggression (41). ... According to an article in Consumers Research Magazine, television promotes an increase towards violent and shows lack of concern when violence is seen (38). ...

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Violence and aggression are harmful social behaviors that are followed by many negative consequences. ... They then act more aggressive towards the people they interact with regularly in their lives. ... This will make becoming desensitized to violence harder and hopefully children will realize violence is bad and think before acting with aggression. ...

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Wendy Fontanazza, the mother of a five-year-old stated, "After watching Cartoon Network, my son became aggressive towards other children and began using his had as a gun." ... Murray, director and professor of the school of Family studies and Human Services at Kansas State University states, The fact that the same finding of a relation between television violence and aggression in children has been found in study after study, in one country after another, cannot be ignored. The casual effect of television violence of aggression, even though it is not very large, exists (Murray, 46). ...

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I am an international student at this University; I am from the Middle-East a little bit more conservative part of the world were the government as well as parents still take a very active as well as a conservative approach towards bringing up their children. ... Shows like Power Rangers, Beast Wars that are oriented towards kids, and even The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) which part of the show airs on times when most elementary school kids are awake. ... In the early seventies researchers from the University of British Columbia did some experiments to determine the level of aggression in...

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In many television shows aimed towards children, such as the "Power Rangers", they portray the good characters having to resort to violence in able to defeat the bad characters. ... I believe aggression modeled by children from watching television could be curbed when more of the influential adults in children's lives are involved. ...

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